Juan Pablo Montoya’s ZR1 Drive – Video
Last week I wrote about Juan Pablo Montoya getting behind the wheel of a ZR1 and tearing up the Milfrod Proving Grounds. Well, thankfully, no one would let such an event occur without video, so here it is. Before the video, I thought I'd include a few more quotes from JPM after the event that I particularly enjoyed. I wont go in to any greater detail about the day at the track though, as I already did that in my last update. So without further ado, here are the quotes and the awesome video of JPM tearing it up with a ZR1.
"On Thursday I was at the GM Proving Ground (Milford, MI) driving a Corvette and scaring people around. That was a lot of fun. I scared a lot of people (laughs); that was fun. It’s a really, really cool little race track with up and down and off-camber corners. If you’re going to build a circuit, you should go and see that before you do something because it was wow.”
“Oh, they were sweating a lot and I was driving the car over two laps. I was kind of surprised (laughs). It was fun. I don’t know how they do it but I took all the tracking control and stability controls and switched everything off. You’re power-sliding and spinning the tires in fourth gear and things like that. When you’re trying to hang onto the car at 150 mph with a passenger beside you; you’ve got to be on it and you’re driving the car. I mean as a passenger, I wouldn’t be my own passenger. Put it that way (more laughter).”
"I leave always a little bit of margin, especially in the faster corners. The slower ones, I really go at it and do a little drifting here and there and it’s just fun. It becomes fun for me as well because you’re enjoying yourself and I was very impressed with the car. I was really impressed with the car. I drove a Corvette many years ago, but when you drive on the street you never really know what the car can do. And this was like a track day. And this was an awesome race track. So it was fun.”